The latest ideas and products, tips & techniques for lighting your home and garden, from America's top home lighting designer.
Lighting your home well can deliver an unexpected benefit: with the proper lighting, you can end up looking ten or more years younger.
Recessed downlighting can accent bags under the eyes, wrinkles, and other things you'd prefer to hide. Proper use of ambient light can greatly improve how you and your family and guests appear in you home. Humanizing light means layering light to light people first, then objects, furniture and art.
Author, designer, innovator, and lecturer Randall Whitehead is America's top expert in residential lighting. He has drawn upon his experience from over thirty years of consulting practice to develop a unique and comprehensive body of knowledge about lighting and how it affects us everywhere we live and work. Randall has appeared many times as a guest expert on The Discovery Channel, HGTV, and CNNfn. He has developed an extensive series of seminars on lighting design and has produced them throughout the United States, Canada and South America.
Bathrooms (and kitchens) should be the first areas considered in remodel projects. Homeowners can add 80-90% of their investment of a bath or kitchen remodel onto the value of their home. Today that's a very good return. Plus, getting the lighting right in these spaces will make them dramatic, functional and relaxing.
Kitchens are now becoming the center for casual entertaining. With the way the economy is now, more homeowners are having people over for a meal instead of going out to a restaurant. Often friends and family bring an appetizer, salad or desert to add to the meal. Everyone gathers around the kitchen island or table as others trail in, so the kitchen needs to be as inviting as the rest of the house.
